Tuesday Tidbits!

Lots of randomness for you on this Tuesday morning! :)

--Our washing machine has been dying a slow & painful death over the past couple of months. We finally bit the bullet during the Veterans Day sales & got a new one! This is our first time with a front loader, and the girls have enjoyed watching in action. But Shelby's absolute favorite part of the new washer is it plays a little musical tune at the end of the cycle...it's like Christmas morning every time she hears it! ;)

--We found out last week that it's a very real possibility that we may not found out our next assignment until May as opposed to late December/January as we initially thought. May!!! As in, we would be moving in June/July and finding out in May. I can't even think about it right now. ;)

--Flu shots all around for the Smith girls a couple weeks ago followed by lunch with Daddy at Chick-fil-a! Both girls were champs for their shots & didn't even flinch! The girls enjoyed our matching bandaids! :)

--We randomly ended up seeing the new Peanuts movie on opening night. We had no plans to go see it then, but it was a rainy & chilly that night...so we thought, why not?! Neither of the girls had ever seen anything Charlie Brown related, but they both loved it! I think they particularly enjoyed the absence of any intense climactic scenes that most Disney movies have...the Peanuts movie was just light-hearted fun!

--We went & visited Santa this weekend at the mall to get our annual photo. :)  Shelby didn't nap that afternoon & worked hard on a wish list for Santa during her quiet time.

Can you tell she was excited to show Santa her list?!

I love everything about this picture!! Shelby was going over her list in detail with Santa while Derek & I desperately tried to
convince Hadley that Santa really wasn't all that bad. ;)

--We also made a trip to the zoo this weekend, which was hands-down the best zoo experience of my life! We figured out shortly after moving here that the zoo is just not something you should EVER under any circumstances do in the summer in San Antonio. Crowds + 100 degree temps + animals that are hiding in the shade = no one having any fun. But the zoo during the fall/winter is perfect here!! We went on a cool/dreary day, so we practically had the whole zoo to ourselves & the animals were super active! Our favorite part of the day was getting to see the lions & their 4 month old baby cubs. The lions are usually very sedentary and are always napping when we see them..but not on this day!! When we first got there, the parents were watching the cubs play. But then all of a sudden, the daddy lion got up and nudged one of the cubs initiating a family wrestling match!! It was the coolest thing ever! It felt like we were in the middle of a National Geographic show or something! These pictures don't do it justice!

This is the daddy literally rolling on top of his cubs, it was hilarious & so cool to watch!
Shelby kept saying "They're just like us wrestling!"

--Shelby's school has a plethora of pets. Here they are holding one of the bunnies one morning, I promise no bunnies were harmed! ;)

--All of a sudden, I am so ready for Hadley to be potty trained! She could essentially already be wearing underwear--she keeps her diaper bone dry all day long and will only pee or poop in her diaper when she's in her crib for nap or bedtime. It's fantasic that I never have to worry about bringing diapers anywhere or changing her in public. The annoying thing is I have to put her down for her nap, then go back in her room five minutes later to change her wet diaper b/c she won't nap if it's wet. Then I have to go in another five minutes later to see if she's pooped...b/c heaven forbid she pee & poop in the same diaper. Going in her room three separate times to get her settled down for nap is driving me crazy recenly even though it's been our norm for a few months now. Hadley is clearly more than ready to be potty trained...we just have to get her to realize the potty isn't so bad...similar to the whole Santa thing! ;)  I totally thought she would be more interested in potty training than Shelby was at this age b/c she has a big sister that she wants to be just like...but she wants nothing to do with the potty AT ALL. Even though she's successfully gone a couple times, she acts like a sad little puppy if you ask her to even go near the potty. We're hoping to give potty training a try during Thanksgiving break next week since Shelby won't have school and we can stay home & focus on it for a couple of days uninterrupted..we'll see how it goes! ;) 

I think that's it for today..Happy Tuesday, Everyone!! :)